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It Won't be Long...
Chapter 10
Emily successfully got all their stuff out of her mother's house without being caught. She brought it to her old apartment building and asked for her old apartment back. Luckily, her old landlord was nice, and let her have a slightly bigger one when she found out that Emily had Leslie. She even helped Emily carry their things up to the apartment.
"Listen, Thanks alot," Emily said putting one of Leslie's boxes on the floor, "But I can't get you any money until my uncle sends it, and I don't know when that'll be."
"Oh, don't you worry about that, sweet " she responded, " The rent here isn't that much and you don't have to pay until you have the money."
Emily let out a relieved sigh, "Thank you so much." she said as the landlord walked out of the apartment. She looked around the place for a minute. It was much nicer than her last apartment. It had two bedrooms across the living room from each other. There was a bathroom the the left of one of the bedrooms and a kitchen to the right of the front door.
Emily figured it could work for them, and she was very pleased that it was already mostly furnished. The landlord said they could have everything in the place, which help tremendously. There were double beds in the bedrooms and dressers for their clothes. In the kitchen there were most of the needed appliances and the living room had a couch and matching armchair. there was a TV in front of the coffee table and a small bookshelf near a window that looked over the beach.
Emily had forgotten about the beach, and longed to feel the sand between her toes and the water in her hair again. She looked at her watch and saw it was almost time for Leslie to get off school and left to pick her up.
She walked all the way to her sister's school and waited out side for her. When she saw Leslie walk out she was glad to see her talking to a boy.
"Les!" She called as she walked up to her sister. Leslie grinned, and said goodbye to the boy before meeting Emily in the middle.
"Hi, Em." she said with a sigh, "Did you find a place?"
Emily grinned and nodded, "You wanna go see it?" she asked leading her sister down the road. Leslie grinned back and hurried along with her sister.
When they got to the apartment Emily got for them Leslie seemed to like it.
"Hey, this is nice," she said walking around the place. She peaked her head into one of the rooms curiously, "Do you think I could paint on the walls?"
Emily giggled. She'd forgotten her sister liked to paint on things, "I dunno, You could ask, but I wouldn't get you hopes up."
Leslie shrugged and plopped down on the couch in their new living room. Emily sat down next to her and she felt better now that they were away from their mother and out of the pain and suffering she brought upon her sister.
Emily looked out the window again and saw the beach she sighed and got up for a better look, "Les, do you mind if I go to the beach for a bit?" she asked biting her lip as she turned around.
Leslie shrugged as the door buzzed. Emily answered the door to see their landlord smiling at them.
"Hello, Emily, I was making sure you were settling in nicely." she asked. Emily nodded and let her in the apartment, "And you must be Leslie."
Leslie smiled and nodded, "Hi, Um, I know we're renting the place, and all but I was wondering if I could paint on the walls."
"Les," Emily said cocking an eyebrow, "Sorry, Mrs. Jet."
"NO, that's alright," she said smiling at Leslie, "I was going to hire someone to redecorate the place anyway. If she wants to paint the walls then that's fine with me. It saves me money."
Leslie grinned and hopped off to her room. Emily rolled her eyes, knowing her sister was already busting out her paints and brushes.
"Thank you," she said once again more than grateful.
"No that's alright, Emily, dear." Mrs. Jet said before bidding her a goodbye and leaving the apartment. Emily sighed and went to change into her bathing suit. There was a place on the beach she wanted to check out while she was out on the beach.
Brian was at his house wondering how he was going to get this money to Emily. He didn't want to send it in the mail and he didn't think she had a bank account to transfer it. He was about to call her and see what he should do when the door bell rang.
At the door was John, and George. He let them in and asked them why they were there.
"We wanna go to the beach, Eppy." John said grinning childishly.
"No, because you know Emily moved back to Florida where there are beaches, so no." Brian said sternly. George shoulders slumped and Brian almost felt back for the guy. Brian sighed and sat down on one of the couches in his living room. The place seemed to quiet without Emily there.
"Fellas I know you liked her, but she's going through a lot right now. Her mum's not the best in the world and her and her sister just lost their father. They've had to move away from their mum and I'm trying my best to help them." Brian said to them. They nodded their understanding and John pulled George out of the house again.
Brian reached for the phone to call Emily but it rang and startled him. He picked it up, "Hello?" he asked.
"Um, Emily told me to call this number. She said it was our uncle in London?" a young girls voice said. Brian figured it was Leslie.
"Yes this is him, what's the matter?" he asked, hoping it wasn't anything major.
"Nothing at the moment, Emily said to call and tell you that we found a place." Leslie said with a sigh. Brian smiled at the news.
"That's great, You're Leslie aren't you?" he asked just to be sure.
"Yes, that's me." she said quietly, "What's London like?"
Brian frowned at the random question, "Well it's cold right now, but over all it's nice, didn't Emily tell you anything about it?"
"Yes, but it was all mostly things that happened between her and George Harrison."
Brian was confused suddenly, "I know about their kiss, but what else was there exactly?"
"Oh, not a whole lot, she just said she'd met him here in Florida, and that he kissed her a couple times while she was in London." Leslie said happily.
Brian sighed. So George did love Emily. He wondered if Emily felt the same way, but he knew that was none of his business, "Well, I'm glad you two are settled in alright, tell Emily to call me as soon as she can. I have a few things to talk to her about."
"Ok, I'll do that." Leslie said before hanging up the phone. He sighed and ran his hand through his hair as the doorbell jingled again. He groaned and answered it this time to find Maureen and Cyn. They were smiling as they stepped into the house, pulling a reluctant looking Pattie with them.
"we want Emily to come back." Cyn said quickly as Mo nodded vigorously. Brian sighed, "I can't help you with that, ladies I'm sorry. John and George were just here about the same thing." Brian saw Pattie's eye narrow at the mention of her husband being here about Emily.
Mo opened her mouth to start her pleading, but Brian cut her off, "Will it help you all to know her and her sister are fine and living in an apartment now?"
Maureen and Cynthia thought for a second and nodded.
"So she's definitely not coming back?" Pattie asked trying to be subtle. Brian sighed and shook his head.
"No she's not. She and her sister seem to be fine where they are."
"Oh, well, if you talk to her any time soon tell her to give us a call." Mo said as the others nodded in agreement. Brian knew Pattie didn't want Emily calling her and George's house, but he agreed and they left his house. He was pleased that his niece had rubbed off on everyone so well, and he knew they all missed her dreadfully George probably being the one who missed her the most.
He went to trying to figure out a way to get Emily the money she needed and knew the only way to get it there safely was to give it to her himself.
Emily walked along the beach for a long time before getting up the nerve to start her hunt on the one place she ever liked to go when she went to the beach. She wondered if it looked the same as it did the last time she was there, but she couldn't be too sure because it had been a long time since the last time she'd been.
When she caught sight of it in the distance she started to run toward it. She came to the entrance and bit her lip nervously. She ran her hand over the cool surface of the rock. She walked inside slowly and sighed when the inside looked just like it had months before.
The cove; her cove; Their cove. The cove George had taken her to on the day they met. She sat down in the sand and looked up at the cave like ceiling. She sighed and thought about those few hours spent in the lovely place where nobody could find you.
She had indeed spent many hour hiding in this place when she was upset over her school work, or that her crush didn't like her or that things weren't going the way she felt they should.
The only person other than George that knew about the cove was Emily's father. He nearly always found her there when she'd run off and hide. She always waited for him too. It was those time she missed the most about her father. She knew Leslie missed him too, but Emily was so much closer to him than anybody else. She sighed and looked around the cove again.
It looked the same as it did when George brought her there for the first time. It had a patch of purple flowers in a spot where the sunlight broke through a hole in the ceiling and Emily often picked some of those and put them into a crown for her hair.
She stayed in the cove for about two hours before going back out and going back to the apartment to make sure Leslie was alright. When she walked in she didn't see Leslie. She frowned and went into her sister's bedroom to find her sitting on the floor with a paintbrush painting in a bright yellow color.
She looked around the room and gawked. Leslie had covered her walls with bright tie-dyed colors and flowers of yellow and Green on the ceiling. There were different things painted within the swirling colors like birds and peace signs. there were music lyrics and musical melodies along the wall and Emily was impressed with Leslie's progress in two hours.
"Dang..." she muttered as Leslie grinned and stood up from the floor. Leslie had paint on her hands and clothes. there was even a little bit on her face, but that just helped the artistic look she was trying to create.
"You like it?" she asked looking around her colorful room. Emily nodded and Leslie gathered her paints and followed her sister out to the living room.
"What should I paint in here?" she asked studying the walls in deep concentration. Emily sighed and shrugged. She looked at the phone curiously. Leslie put on a record for something to make some sort of noise while she worked and Emily made up her mind and dialed the first number that popped into her head.
"I already called Brian, Em." Leslie said painting a deep red streak across the wall.
"Not calling him," Emily said as the phone rang. Leslie turned down the record player so her sister could hear and went back to her painting.
the phone rang for a minute and just when Emily was going to give up, he answered.
"Hello?" he sounded sleepy.
"Hi, George," she said grinning at her sister's sudden interest in her phone conversation.
"Em?" he asked sounding happy.
"Hi," she said with a giggle.
"Brian said you moved out of your mum's place." he said excited to be talking to her.
"Yeah, Me and my sister got an apartment." Emily said as Leslie carefully put down her paint brush and plopped onto the couch next to Emily.
"That's good." George said with a sigh. there was a silence, and Leslie was hopping up and down like she was going to explode if she didn't know what was going on.
"How old's you sister now?" George asked. Leslie let out a squeal at hearing this; she had her head to the receiver as Emily held it.
"She's thirteen," Emily laughed as her sister did a little dance of excitement, "Do you wanna talk to her?"
Leslie gaped and her eyes widened.
"Sure, why not?" George said. Emily told him to hold on and she held out the phone to her jittery sister.
"H-hello?" she said suddenly nervous.
"Hi, I'm George Harrison." George introduced himself with a giggle.
"I'm Leslie, bit you can call me Les." Leslie said quickly. George giggled and Emily watched her sister start to hop up and down.
"Ok, then Les," George said happily, "I'm gonna tell you a secret ok?"
Leslie grinned evilly and told George to go on, "You can't tell Emily I said this ok?"
Leslie giggled, "Ok, what is it?"
George groaned suddenly and Leslie frowned, "I'm really sorry, Les, but Pattie, my wife, is impatient. could I talk to Emily again please?"
"But what about the secret?" Leslie asked disappointed.
"I'll tell you as soon as I get the chance to talk to you again, yeah?" he asked. Leslie sighed and handed the phone grudgingly back to Emily.
"Secret?" Emily asked his with a cocked eyebrow; even though he couldn't see it. George giggled.
"Yeah, sorry, just trying to be cool with your sister..." George said trialing off. Emily heard Pattie in the background yelling about who was on the phone and for George to hang up.
George sighed, "Listen Em, I gotta go now. Pattie's a bit jealous that we were so close."
"She doesn't have any reason to be." Emily said sighing, "Um ok, well than I guess you gotta go then?"
"Yeah, um, when do you think your coming back to London?" George asked hopefully.
Emily sighed, "I don't think I can, Geo." she said sadly. George sighed.
"Not even for a visit?" he asked pleadingly.
"I don't think so George. I'm sorry." she said looking at her lap sadly.
"Alright, then, goodbye I guess." he said uncertain of whether he really wanted the conversation to end.
"Um George, do you ever think about the cove?" Emily blurted.
There was silence on the other end for a long time. Emily waited for him to answer and she was about to hang up when she heard him say; "All the time, Em..."
"Bye George." she said close to tears.
"I love you, Emily." George said barely audible. Emily took in a sharp breath as the line went dead and she hung up the phone.
Did he really just tell her the words she forever wanted to hear from him?